Yesterday, I had an odd conversation with a founding team. They were addressing an important, critical, and an absolutely need-to-solve problem with a lifestyle intervention solution. Lifestyle intervention is an area where I have had a high degree of investment interest. However, the founders' pricing strategy was a significant source of concern for me. They wanted to address the mass market and, therefore, priced their solution at
How quickly we’ve recovered from the impact, COVID had on our life & lifestyles. The fear that life will never be the same again fades with each day as we collectively prevail over a virus that does not care about
I learned about the need for reform in India's Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) scheme a year after Narendra Modi got sworn in for the first time in 2014. In the chapter on Revamping Agriculture And The Public Distribution System in Getting India Back on Track, Ashok Gulati reveals just how
Did you know that 97% postal codes in India ordered at least 1 item online in the last year? I found this statistic while researching for a presentation for the budding entrepreneurs of iHub Gujarat. here are some more interesting
What better way to restart the Sponsorship Sunday series than by backing a kid raising money to protect the people who are protecting us!
Several founders wait with bated breath as the Indian economy reopens after a 76-day hibernation. Many of them wait in anticipation that there will be an outbreak of indulgence consumption or revenge buying that will flood the empty coffers of
Recently, I was on a weekly update call with one of our food delivery startup founders. They were restarting delivery operations from a multitude of small, but FSSAI certified kitchens. To rebuild consumer confidence, they developed technology that would not
In my recent memory, Japan has always held the crown for the longest living humans – almost 20 years higher than the world average. Therefore, it isn’t a surprise that Japan also has the highest centenarians per capita, i.e., the highest ratio of people that are over 100 years old as a percentage of its population. Within Japan,
Yesterday was the 60th day since we shut down our office, but it feels much longer. Partly because of the roller coaster journey I have had with a concept that I could not understand, i.e., working from home. In the last 60 days, I have gone from hating to loving the
On our last working day of the decade, i.e., the 27th of December 2019, I asked the Artha team to congregate in our conference room. At 5 pm, 24 Artha team members stuffed themselves into a space built for 8,